S8 Ep143: The Grandest Tour Stage 1: Monreale - Palermo
The Cycling Podcast
The Cycling Podcast
4.7 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 October 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
We hear from Geraint Thomas and Simon Yates, the big winners among the overall contenders, and from our new diarists, Joe Dombrowski, James Knox, Jacopo Guarnieri, Nathan Haas, Cesare Benedetti and Rick Zabel, who tells us how he targeted — and won — the King of the Mountains jersey.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to The Grandest Tour by The Cycling Podcast. |
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| 0:15.9 | Today we are at the Giro d'Italia. |
| 0:19.2 | We are all with Daniel. |
| 0:29.1 | We are kicked off already. |
| 0:31.1 | We have started. That is it. We are underway. The Giro, the Grandest Tour is underway. |
| 0:35.1 | The Giro, I notice, Rich, that the organizers are calling it the Giro de la Repartensa, |
| 0:41.1 | the Giro of the Rebirth. |
| 0:45.1 | Rebirth, restart. |
| 0:47.1 | We talked about this notion of the Giro of the Rebirth, which was what the 1946 Giro was dubbed. |
| 0:55.1 | It was not after Second World War, but rather the rebirth. |
| 0:59.1 | Repartensa is starting to set off again on the journey. |
| 1:05.1 | It was 46, wasn't it? It was 47. The Tour restarted. |
| 1:09.1 | Correct. The Giro was 46. We covered all that in our Giro, of course. |
| 1:13.1 | We are in the Piazza della Revoluzioni of the revolution. |
| 1:19.1 | We are having a beer. We have been watching the time trial today. |
| 1:23.1 | Palermo, I was surprised to realize, Daniel, you have not spent a lot of time here. |
| 1:29.1 | I don't think you have even been here at all. |
| 1:31.1 | No, we have skirted it a couple of years ago on Giro. |
| 1:33.1 | We have been on to Sicily several times in the last few years. |
| 1:39.1 | I have never spent that much time in Palermo. |
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